The Snake Summit that the Lula Government (PT) complies with agreements signed in 2024 about payment of the and signals that it can paralyze voting until this is not resolved, in a new front of the legislature with the executive.
On Thursday (13), parliamentarians approved the extension of the term of the current CMO (Joint Budget Commission), formed by deputies and senators, until the approval of the
This movement would have been supported by the presidents of the Chamber, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), and, David Alcolumbre (Brazil-AP Union), according to reports made to Sheet.
In practice, this may change the budget voting schedule again. A closed calendar shortly after Carnival predicted to vote on the final report until Wednesday (19) at CMO and Thursday (20) in Congress.
In this drawing, LOA’s vote would be completed days before the end of the current term of the commission, which would end on the 25th of this month.
The text is already late and limits the execution of the budget by the federal government. The adjustment of federal functionalism, which should have been paid from January, has no date to be incorporated.
Three ruling leaders say they were caught by surprise by the extension, informed moments before being included in a resolution approved at a Congress session on Thursday.
Budget rapporteur, Senator Angelo Colonel (PSD-BA), told the interlocutors that the voting calendar could undergo further adjustments for political reasons.
Already the president of the CMO, Julio Arcoverde (PP-PI), issued a note to the press saying that this extension of the mandates allows the budget piece to be voted “with responsibility” and ensuring that “the demands of Brazil are met”.
Behind the scenes, deputies and senators say this regimental act was a political message to the federal government that it is necessary to honor commitments signed in 2024.
According to reports from politicians heard by the report, parliamentarians want the government to include this year’s budget piece the forecast of payment of about $ 7 billion in amendments.
Without this, they say the budget will not be voted on, as are other matters of interest to the Executive. Government members were alerted to this growing dissatisfaction of parliamentarians.
The amount represents the sum of R $ 3.8 billion in commission amendments that had their payment suspended in 2024 by determination of Minister Flávio Dino, of the Supreme Court (STF), and were not committed and R $ 3 billion in extra amendments that the government promised to parliamentarians who.
Commission amendments would be divided equally to the House and Senate (R $ 1.9 billion for each house), while the extras followed the proportion of a third for senators and two thirds for deputies.
In addition, parliamentarians charge greater detail of the payment and distribution of the amendments provided for in this year’s budget, which reach R $ 52 billion. There are doubts about the indication of the rubrics according to the new rule agreed with the STF that unlocked these resources.
In the CMO, the lack of signs of compliance with another agreement is also the subject of complaints. The executive would have promised to pay the amendments to all deputies and senators with a seat on the commission, which would not have occurred yet.
Payment of parliamentary amendments by the federal government is criticized by deputies and senators since the first year of the Lula administration. In 2024, with Dino’s decisions that suspended the transfers, new friction was generated between legislative and executive. Congress leaders say they see alleged participation of government members in the magistrate’s decisions.
In the assessment of governors, however, much of the dissatisfaction stems from the fact that the century and the congressional summit lost the exclusive management of the distribution of amendments and funds they had under the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government.
Two allies of Lula say that the government has the dimension that it is necessary to resolve this impasse and claim that the executive works to seek a solution.
One of them says that the new minister of political articulation, Gleisi Hoffmann (Secretariat of Institutional Relations), is in dialogue with the presidents of both homes, party leaders and government to define the best way.
According to an interlocutor of the minister, she is combing these pending issues to present alternatives to Congress, and seek with the Planalto possibilities to make room in the budget and accommodate these amendments.
There is a signal that meetings take place in the coming days, with the participation of leaders and government members, to address the issue. Sought by the report, SRI said it will not comment.
Nevertheless, governors claim that the possibility of postponing the budget voting has lit a warning signal at the time the executive is trying to reverse the drop in the popularity of petista management and is on the eve of sending priority projects to Congress, such as the project that will give exemption from IR (Income Tax) to those who earn up to R $ 5,000.
In addition to the imbroglio involving the amendments, there is a sign that both alcohumbre and Motta should accompany the President of the Republic on the way to Japan later this month, which, in the evaluation of parliamentarians, means that the budget will only be voted in April.
